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Autumn Budget 2018: Chancellor announces UK Digital Services Tax
Chancellor Hammond has made a pre-emptive move in order to impose a tax on the UK generated revenues of tech giants, explains legal director Cathy Bryant. Called the UK Digital...
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Autumn Budget 2018: IR35 rolled out to the private sector
Following consultation over the summer, the Chancellor has announced the extension of the IR35 off-payroll rules to the private sector. Commenting on the announcement, legal director Cathy Bryant, said: "The...
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Crack down on child maintenance evasion
It has long been a problem that some non-resident parents avoid paying the correct and fair amount of child maintenance, by arranging their financial affairs in a certain way. A...
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Blake Morgan advises shareholders on sale of Cornerstone Healthcare
National leading law firm Blake Morgan has advised the shareholders of Cornerstone Healthcare on the sale of their specialist healthcare business to private equity firm Ignite Growth.
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Blake Morgan partners Women’s prize for fiction
After many years of supporting the Prize behind the scenes, we are delighted to announce Blake Morgan is now a partner of, and the Official Legal Provider to, Women's Prize...
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Employment Law Newsletter – Autumn 2018
A warm welcome to Blake Morgan's Autumn newsletter, keeping you informed of the latest developments in Employment Law. With the Budget just over a week away and the Brexit negotiations...
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Can an obligation in a conveyance to maintain fencing take effect as an Easement?
In the recent case of Churston Golf Club v Haddock, the High Court considered whether an obligation to maintain fencing contained in a conveyance could take effect as an easement...
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The “after party” – could employers be liable for what goes on?
It's ten weeks until Christmas and many Christmas parties will be already planned or in the process of being planned. Some will be more spontaneous team meals, others may take...
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What should we expect from the Budget for the higher rates of stamp duty land tax (the 3% surcharge)? Will it increase to 5%?
Figures published at the end of September 2018 for the tax year ending in April 2018 show that £1.895 billion was raised from the extra 3% SDLT on additional dwellings....
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Taxing termination payments – six months on
Six months on from the introduction of a new regime for taxing termination payments (PENP for those familiar with it), there are still two commonly held, wrong beliefs: Nothing has...
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Blake Morgan launch Local Authority Matters at the LLG Governance Conference 2018
In response to the increasing demand for pragmatism and innovation in the local government market, Blake Morgan's specialist sector team has launched a publication to share good advice and their...
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Protecting Trade Secrets and implementation of the new Directive
On the 8 June 2016, the European Commission, European Parliament and the Council adopted a Directive which had the aim of harmonising the approach to protecting trade secrets across the EU...
